Transmigrating Into a Fantasy World: Signing in During Pregnancy, Reaching the Summit with My Childhood Sweetheart

139: Chapter 139: The Undercurrents and the Heart of the FurnaceThe bone-chilling underground river water instantly submerged the three of them. The current was rapid, and in the darkness, only the rumbling sound of water and each other’s rapid heartbeats could be heard. Liuli was clearly extremely familiar with this waterway known as the ”Ancient Waterway.” She led the way like a nimble fish, occasionally looking back and making hand gestures to signal them to avoid hidden underwater reefs and fractured metal structures.

Nangong Xuan and Su Muxue followed closely behind, their spiritual power protecting their bodies and resisting the cold and water pressure. Nangong Xuan retracted his Nirvana Dao Rhyme to the extreme, like a stubborn stone sinking to the bottom of the water, not leaking the slightest breath. Su Muxue used Taiyin Star Power to simulate the ripples of the current, covering their tracks as much as possible.

Behind and above them, violent vibrations and the muffled sounds of energy explosions could be heard faintly. Clearly, the Rebel of the Edict’s base was suffering a fierce attack from the Edict Puppets. The outcome of the Elder staying behind to cover the retreat was self-evident. A heavy sense of grief and indignation spread through the hearts of the three, but it transformed into an even firmer strength to move forward.

The Ancient Waterway was intricate and had many branches. Liuli relied on her memory and secret marks left by Rebel of the Edict Seniors to choose the correct path time and again. The channel was sometimes narrow and cramped, and at other times open like an underground lake. They could even see some strange algae and blind fish emitting a faint phosphorescence; they were the only indigenous inhabitants of this dark world.

After diving through the cold water for an unknown amount of time, Liuli suddenly made a gesture, pointing toward a water surface ahead and to the side. There, a faint light could be seen shining through—not the ghostly light of moss, but a dark red, scorching glow.

The three surfaced silently and found themselves at the edge of a massive underground cavity. Below the cavity was a boundless, slowly flowing dark red magma lake! A scorching air current hit them in the face, and the air was filled with a strong smell of sulfur and violent Fire Baleful Qi.

The magma lake was not naturally formed. Countless massive, cold metal pipes and platforms crisscrossed the lake’s surface. The style of these creations was identical to Tian Yuan City, clearly the handiwork of the great edict. These pipes were like the blood vessels of a giant beast, inserted into the magma lake, greedily extracting the power of Earth Fire and transporting it to an unknown place above. The entire space was like a colossal underground factory where cold and heat were intertwined!

”The Earth Fire Meridian Eye... the Conversion Core must be near here!” Liuli said in a low voice, filled with shock. Even among the Rebels of the Edict, very few had ever ventured deep into such a Core dangerous area.

The chaos star core in Nangong Xuan’s arms vibrated violently again, and Lin Mo’s consciousness carried clear excitement and warning: ”It’s here... massive fire fiend... being forcibly extracted... constrained... the Core... is on that largest black platform in the center of the lake!”

Looking in the direction he pointed, they saw the most magnificent black metal platform standing in the center of the magma lake. Above the platform, a massive, constantly rotating dark red crystal was suspended. Countless thick pipes rose from the magma lake and connected to the bottom of the crystal, injecting violent Earth Fire power into it. From the top of the crystal, more slightly thinner pipes extended, transporting the converted, stabilized energy outward.

That dark red crystal emitted heart-palpitating energy fluctuations, as if a miniature sun were imprisoned within it! It was the Earth Fire Energy Conversion Core of the great edict!

However, attempting to approach it was an almost impossible task. Above the lake’s surface, dozens of strangely shaped Edict Puppets resembling metal spiders patrolled along fixed tracks. Their compound eyes flashed with cold red light, scanning everything below. The platform’s surroundings were further filled with flickering energy barriers that emitted dangerous fluctuations.